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It's not a matter of clinging to the past.

I definitely want and wish for tools that can allow me to design websites without having to know what IE developers were thinking the day they decided to have some fun.

The reason vim, emacs and the likes are still used a lot isn't because of nostalgia but because it works great for the user.

The issue with all the WYSIWYG editors is they take the "a web site can be anything and everyone can be a designer"-approach which is completely make believe. Till they make some form of WYSIWYM editor aimed at the web designer to use, all other approaches are worthless because they are basically just Word that's fancied up.

Most graphic designer classes have a field trip to see how typographers worked for newspapers 60 years go, and learn why their job was important - and such a day will come for designers some day too when it comes to writing code in hand.

But till then, design and code still matters.




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